RSF files second war crimes complaint with ICC over Gaza journalists killed
1 year ago

RSF files second war crimes complaint with ICC over Gaza journalists killed

Al Jazeera  

Latest complaint by Paris-based press freedom group asks the court in the Hague to probe the deaths of seven Palestinian journalists. Reporters Without Borders has filed its second complaint with the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes committed by the Israeli army against Palestinian journalists in Gaza. The latest complaint by the Paris-based press freedom group filed on Friday asks the court in the Hague to investigate the deaths of seven Palestinian journalists killed in the besieged enclave from October 22 to December 15. “RSF has reasonable grounds to believe that the journalists named in this complaint were the victims of attacks amounting to war crimes,” a statement issued by the group said.

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Media freedom watchdog decries Israel’s killing of journalists in Gaza
1 week, 1 day ago

Media freedom watchdog decries Israel’s killing of journalists in Gaza

Al Jazeera  

CPJ says the Israeli military ‘continues to act with total impunity when it comes to the killing of journalists’. The Committee to Protect Journalists has denounced Israel’s killing of four Palestinian journalists in Gaza over the past week as the Israeli military intensifies its bombardment of the besieged territory. “Israel is responsible for two-thirds of those deaths and yet continues …

Media groups condemn Israel over Gaza journalist ‘massacre’
1 week, 5 days ago

Media groups condemn Israel over Gaza journalist ‘massacre’

Al Jazeera  

Two separate reports from media freedom organisations that analysed the deaths of reporters worldwide this year found Israel carried out a “massacre” of journalists in Gaza, an accusation denied by the Israeli government. An annual report published by Reporters Without Borders on Thursday found the Israeli army killed 18 journalists – two in Lebanon and 16 in Gaza – as …

An Israeli strike that killed 3 Lebanese journalists was most likely deliberate, watchdog says
4 weeks, 1 day ago

An Israeli strike that killed 3 Lebanese journalists was most likely deliberate, watchdog says

Associated Press  

BEIRUT — An Israeli airstrike that killed three journalists and wounded others in Lebanon last month was most likely a deliberate attack on civilians and an apparent war crime, an international human rights group said Monday. Human Rights Watch determined that Israeli forces carried out the Oct. 25 attack using an air-dropped bomb equipped with a U.S.-produced Joint Direct Attack …

An Israeli strike that killed 3 Lebanese journalists was most likely deliberate, watchdog says
4 weeks, 1 day ago

An Israeli strike that killed 3 Lebanese journalists was most likely deliberate, watchdog says

The Independent  

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An Israeli strike that killed 3 Lebanese journalists was most likely deliberate, watchdog says
4 weeks, 1 day ago

An Israeli strike that killed 3 Lebanese journalists was most likely deliberate, watchdog says

LA Times  

A journalist observes the site where an Israeli airstrike hit a compound housing journalists, killing three media staffers from two different news agencies, according to Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency, in Hasbaya village, southeast Lebanon, on Oct. 25. An Israeli airstrike that killed three journalists and wounded others in Lebanon last month was most likely a deliberate attack on civilians …

Beirut hit by multiple Israeli air strikes as claims of journalists working for Hamas labelled 'fabricated'
2 months ago

Beirut hit by multiple Israeli air strikes as claims of journalists working for Hamas labelled 'fabricated'

ABC  

Israel has accused six Palestinian journalists of working for Hamas and Islamic Jihad, claims which the Al Jazeera media network has rejected as an attempt to silence them. "Al Jazeera condemns Israeli accusations against its journalists in Gaza and warns against being a justification for targeting them," the network said in a statement on Wednesday. Six buildings destroyed in Beirut, …

RSF condemns ‘outrageous’ charges against journalists in Bangladesh
3 months, 3 weeks ago

RSF condemns ‘outrageous’ charges against journalists in Bangladesh

Hindustan Times  

The Reporters Without Borders has condemned the “outrageous” charges such as crimes against humanity brought against dozens of Bangladeshi journalists and sought the immediate release of arrested reporters and dropping of the “unfounded” accusations. A Bangladeshi lawyer filed a case at the International Crimes Tribunal against 52 people, including Sheikh Hasina and 27 leading journalists, for alleged crimes against humanity …

Al-Jazeera says two of its journalists killed in Israeli strike in Gaza
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Al-Jazeera says two of its journalists killed in Israeli strike in Gaza

Associated Press  

RAMALLAH, West Bank — Two Al-Jazeera reporters were killed in an Israeli strike in northern Gaza on Wednesday, the satellite news network said, the latest Palestinian journalists working with the Qatari network to be killed in the war-torn enclave. The two journalists had been reporting together at the Shati Refugee Camp, the birthplace of slain Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh who …

Five journalists killed as Israel steps up bombardment across Gaza
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Five journalists killed as Israel steps up bombardment across Gaza

Al Jazeera  

Journalist couple Amjad Jahjouh and Wafa Abu Dabaan and their children were killed in a strike on the Nuseirat camp. At least five journalists were killed in attacks by Israeli forces in the last 24 hours in Gaza as bombings and air strikes across the besieged enclave intensified. On Saturday, Gaza’s Government Media Office said separate Israeli strikes killed three …

Watching the watchdogs: Israel’s attacks on journalists are backfiring
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Watching the watchdogs: Israel’s attacks on journalists are backfiring

Al Jazeera  

For the past six months, Israel has put a lot of effort into covering up its genocidal crimes in Gaza. It is generating greater global attention and media coverage of the assassinations of Palestinian journalists along with demands for Israeli political and legal accountability, which increased after the International Court of Justice proclaimed that Israel is “plausibly” carrying out genocidal …

Nearly 75% of journalists killed in 2023 died in Israel’s war on Gaza: CPJ
10 months, 1 week ago

Nearly 75% of journalists killed in 2023 died in Israel’s war on Gaza: CPJ

Al Jazeera  

Committee to Protect Journalists says of the 99 journalists killed globally last year, 72 were Palestinians. “In December 2023, CPJ reported that more journalists were killed in the first three months of the Israel-Gaza war than have ever been killed in a single country over an entire year,” the organisation said. On February 7, the New York-based press freedom organisation …

Evidence Israel military is deliberately targeting journalists, says campaign group
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Evidence Israel military is deliberately targeting journalists, says campaign group

The Independent  

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Is Israel targeting journalists and their families in Gaza? ‘Apparent pattern…’
1 year ago

Is Israel targeting journalists and their families in Gaza? ‘Apparent pattern…’

Hindustan Times  

The Committee to Protect Journalists accused Israeli military of targeting journalists and their families in Gaza. The New York-based CPJ said as per Guardian that at least 68 journalists had been killed in Gaza, Israel and southern Lebanon since Hamas' October 7 attack in which 1,200 Israelis died. In at least two other cases, journalists reported receiving threats from Israeli …

Israel-Hamas war 'most dangerous ever' for journalists: Rights group
1 year ago

Israel-Hamas war 'most dangerous ever' for journalists: Rights group

Hindustan Times  

The first 10 weeks of the Israel-Gaza war have been the deadliest recorded for journalists, with the most journalists killed in a single year in one location, the U.S.-based Committee to Protect Journalists said on Thursday. Four Israeli and three Lebanese journalists, including Reuters visuals journalist Issam Abdallah, were also killed between Oct. 7 and Dec. 20, CPJ data showed. …

Israel’s war on Gaza deadliest in modern history for journalists, CPJ says
1 year ago

Israel’s war on Gaza deadliest in modern history for journalists, CPJ says

Al Jazeera  

The Committee to Protect Journalists says concentration of reporters killed in Gaza ‘unparalleled’ in the group’s history. As Israeli forces pound the Gaza Strip, journalists are being killed at a rate with no parallel in modern history, a press freedom watchdog says. “More journalists have been killed in the first 10 weeks of the Israel-Gaza war than have ever been …

Al Jazeera to refer journalist Samer Abudaqa’s killing to ICC
1 year ago

Al Jazeera to refer journalist Samer Abudaqa’s killing to ICC

Al Jazeera  

The Al Jazeera Arabic cameraman was killed by a drone attack while reporting on the bombing of a school in southern Gaza Strip. The Al Jazeera Media Network says it will refer the killing of its cameraman Samer Abudaqa in Gaza to the International Criminal Court. In a statement on Saturday, the Qatar-based network said it has instructed its legal …

Is Israel deliberately targeting journalists in Gaza?
1 year ago

Is Israel deliberately targeting journalists in Gaza?

Al Jazeera  

The war on Gaza has been the deadliest for media workers ever recorded. Israel’s war on Gaza is the deadliest for media workers ever recorded, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. The International Federation of Journalists says around three-quarters of all deaths in 2023 have been in Gaza. They have mainly been Palestinians covering the story as international news …

Journalists’ deaths surge in Gaza but global 2023 toll drops, watchdog says
1 year ago

Journalists’ deaths surge in Gaza but global 2023 toll drops, watchdog says

Al Jazeera  

Reporters Without Borders says journalists paying ‘heavy price’ in Gaza, where 13 have been killed on the job this year. Forty-five journalists were killed while on the job in the first 11 months of the year, media advocacy group Reporters Without Borders has said, noting that it was a decline from last year’s worldwide total despite the deadly toll of …

Journalists’ rights group counts 94 media workers killed this year, most of them in Gaza
1 year ago

Journalists’ rights group counts 94 media workers killed this year, most of them in Gaza

Associated Press  

BRUSSELS — A leading organization representing journalists worldwide expressed deep concern Friday at the number of media professionals killed around the globe doing their jobs in 2023, with Israel’s war with Hamas claiming more journalists than any conflict in over 30 years. The group said 68 journalists had been killed covering the Israeli-Hamas war since Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. …

Rights groups say Israeli strikes on journalists in Lebanon were likely deliberate
1 year ago

Rights groups say Israeli strikes on journalists in Lebanon were likely deliberate

Associated Press  

BEIRUT — Two Israeli strikes that killed a Reuters videographer and wounded six other journalists in south Lebanon nearly two months ago were apparently deliberate and a direct attack on civilians, two international human rights groups said Thursday. The strikes killed Issam Abdallah and wounded Reuters journalists Thaer Al-Sudani and Maher Nazeh, Qatar’s Al-Jazeera television cameraman Elie Brakhya and reporter …

Israel should face war crimes probe over journalist death in Lebanon: NGOs
1 year ago

Israel should face war crimes probe over journalist death in Lebanon: NGOs

Al Jazeera  

Rights groups say attack that killed Reuters journalist and injured six others ‘likely a direct attack on civilians’. International rights groups have said that Israeli strikes that killed a journalist and injured six others in southern Lebanon were likely a direct attack on civilians and must be investigated as a war crime. HRW said the “evidence indicates that the Israeli …

Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon kill 2 journalists for a pan-Arab TV channel, 4 Palestinian militants
1 year, 1 month ago

Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon kill 2 journalists for a pan-Arab TV channel, 4 Palestinian militants

Associated Press  

BEIRUT — An Israeli strike in southern Lebanon on Tuesday killed two journalists who were reporting for a Beirut-based TV station on military activity along the border with Israel, according to Lebanese officials and the broadcaster. It said they were “martyred by treacherous Israeli targeting.” The airstrike that hit the journalists also killed a Lebanese civilian, Hussein Akil, according to …

Three rights groups file ICC lawsuit against Israel over Gaza ‘genocide’
1 year, 1 month ago

Three rights groups file ICC lawsuit against Israel over Gaza ‘genocide’

Al Jazeera  

The lawsuit urges the ICC to include ‘genocide’ in Gaza war crimes inquiry and issue arrest warrants for Israel’s leaders. Three Palestinian rights groups have filed a lawsuit with the International Criminal Court, urging the body to investigate Israel for “apartheid” as well as “genocide” and issue arrest warrants for Israeli leaders. In the latest ICC filing, the rights groups’ …

How deadly is the Israel-Gaza war for journalists?
1 year, 1 month ago

How deadly is the Israel-Gaza war for journalists?

Al Jazeera  

More than one journalist a day has been killed since the start of the war last month. At least 39 journalists have been killed in just over one month of Israel’s war on Gaza – that’s more than double the number of fatalities in one and a half years of Russia-Ukraine war – in what has been described as “the …

A media freedom group accuses Israel and Hamas of war crimes and reports deaths of 34 journalists
1 year, 1 month ago

A media freedom group accuses Israel and Hamas of war crimes and reports deaths of 34 journalists

Associated Press  

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Thirty-four journalists have been killed in the war between Israel and Hamas, an international media freedom group said Wednesday, accusing both sides of committing possible war crimes. The latest complaint also cites “the deliberate, total or partial, destruction of the premises of more than 50 media outlets in Gaza” since Israel declared war against Hamas over …

Watchdog group says attack that killed videographer ‘explicitly targeted’ Lebanon journalists
1 year, 1 month ago

Watchdog group says attack that killed videographer ‘explicitly targeted’ Lebanon journalists

Associated Press  

BEIRUT — A watchdog group advocating for press freedom said that the strikes that hit a group of journalists in southern Lebanon earlier this month, killing one, were targeted rather than accidental and that the journalists were clearly identified as press. Reporters Without Borders, or RSF, published preliminary conclusions Sunday in an ongoing investigation, based on video evidence and witness …

Reuters, Al Jazeera journalists ‘targeted’ in Lebanon strike: Press group
1 year, 1 month ago

Reuters, Al Jazeera journalists ‘targeted’ in Lebanon strike: Press group

Al Jazeera  

Reporters Without Borders says ‘unlikely’ that Issam Abdallah and six other journalists were mistaken for combatants. Their car was also identified as ‘press’ thanks to a marking on the roof, according to witnesses.” While RSF did not directly attribute responsibility to Israel, the press freedom advocacy organisation said journalists had witnessed Israeli military helicopters near the scene and the strikes …

Palestinian Roshdi Sarraj is the 23rd journalist killed by Israel-Gaza war
1 year, 2 months ago

Palestinian Roshdi Sarraj is the 23rd journalist killed by Israel-Gaza war

Al Jazeera  

Roshdi Sarraj is now among at least 23 journalists killed since October 7, as he tried to protect his wife and daughter from an Israeli air strike near their home. “The Israelis were bombing our area with no let-up,” said Yahya al-Sarraj, Roshdi’s father and municipal mayor of Gaza City. “But when the Israeli aggression began he immediately cancelled and …

Five Palestinian journalists killed and two missing amid Israel-Palestine war
1 year, 2 months ago

Five Palestinian journalists killed and two missing amid Israel-Palestine war

The Independent  

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At least six Palestinian journalists killed as Israel bombs Gaza
1 year, 2 months ago

At least six Palestinian journalists killed as Israel bombs Gaza

Al Jazeera  

Press freedom organisations say journalists providing critical reporting from Gaza and Israel to the world should not be targeted. At least six Palestinian journalists have been killed in a matter of days, amid Israel’s ongoing shelling of the besieged Gaza strip, media networks and press freedom monitors have said. Journalist Saeed al-Taweel, editor-in-chief of Al-Khamsa News website, and two other …

Al Jazeera renews pledge to seek justice for Shireen Abu Akleh
1 year, 7 months ago

Al Jazeera renews pledge to seek justice for Shireen Abu Akleh

Al Jazeera  

The Doha-based network demands accountability for the killing of its journalist on the first anniversary of her death. Al Jazeera Media Network has renewed its demand for accountability in the killing of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh by Israeli forces on the first anniversary of her death. “The Network renews its appeal to international human rights and press freedom organisations to …

Israel takes ‘no accountability’ for killing journalists: CPJ
1 year, 7 months ago

Israel takes ‘no accountability’ for killing journalists: CPJ

Al Jazeera  

The Israeli military’s impunity in the killing of at least 20 journalists in the past 20 years ‘severely’ undermines press freedom, says CPJ report. “When probes do take place, the Israeli military often takes months or years to investigate killings and families of the mostly Palestinian journalists have little recourse inside Israel to pursue justice,” the CPJ said. Hagai El-Ad, …

Al Jazeera wants the International Criminal Court to probe Palestinian reporter's death
2 years ago

Al Jazeera wants the International Criminal Court to probe Palestinian reporter's death

The Hindu  

News channel Al Jazeera on December 6 formally asked the International Criminal Court to investigate the fatal shooting of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh as she was reporting from a Palestinian refugee camp in May. Al Jazeera has accused the Israeli government of specifically targeting its journalists, calling Abu Akleh’s death a war crime. The news outlet wants ICC prosecutor Karim …

Al Jazeera wants court to probe Palestinian reporter’s death
2 years ago

Al Jazeera wants court to probe Palestinian reporter’s death

Associated Press  

THE HAGUE — News channel Al Jazeera on Tuesday formally asked the International Criminal Court to investigate the fatal shooting of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh as she was reporting from a Palestinian refugee camp in May. Al Jazeera has accused the Israeli government of specifically targeting its journalists, calling Abu Akleh’s death a war crime. The news outlet wants ICC …

Israeli soldiers kill Palestinian, wound two journalists
2 years, 2 months ago

Israeli soldiers kill Palestinian, wound two journalists

Al Jazeera  

A Palestinian man was shot dead and at least two others were injured in the town of Deir al-Hatab, east of Nablus. A Palestinian man has been shot dead and at least two others have been injured by Israeli forces in the town of Deir al-Hatab, east of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said. Two …

One man killed, two journalists injured during Israeli military raid in West Bank
2 years, 2 months ago

One man killed, two journalists injured during Israeli military raid in West Bank

CNN  

CNN — A Palestinian man was killed and two journalists shot and injured by Israeli forces during an Israeli military raid in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian authorities said Wednesday. Hits on a number of armed Palestinians were identified and one assailant was killed as a result of the shooting.” Regarding the two journalists injured, the IDF said “we are …

Al Jazeera journalist’s killing referred to ICC in complaint
2 years, 3 months ago

Al Jazeera journalist’s killing referred to ICC in complaint

Associated Press  

JERUSALEM — A coalition of lawyers and advocacy groups said Tuesday it has referred the fatal shooting of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh to the International Criminal Court on behalf of her family, calling on prosecutors to investigate what it described as Israel’s deliberate targeting of the veteran reporter. Palestinian officials, Abu Akleh’s family and Al Jazeera accuse Israel …

Shireen Abu Akleh’s family submits complaint to ICC
2 years, 3 months ago

Shireen Abu Akleh’s family submits complaint to ICC

Al Jazeera  

Shireen Abu Akleh’s family said they will do whatever they have to do to ensure accountability for her killing by an Israeli soldier. “Like we said before, and like other reports said previously, there were more than 16 shots fired towards Shireen and the media and her colleagues who were standing in that ally,” Anton Abu Akleh said. “That’s why …

Why is Al Jazeera taking killed journalist case to the ICC?
2 years, 6 months ago

Why is Al Jazeera taking killed journalist case to the ICC?

Al Jazeera  

Al Jazeera has assigned a legal team to refer the killing of its journalist Shireen Abu Akleh by Israeli forces to the International Criminal Court at The Hague. The Al Jazeera Media Network has said that it will submit a case to the International Criminal Court at The Hague to investigate the killing of its journalist Shireen Abu Akleh by …

Lawyers will add Abu Akleh to Palestinian journalists’ ICC case
2 years, 6 months ago

Lawyers will add Abu Akleh to Palestinian journalists’ ICC case

Al Jazeera  

ICC case highlights Israeli attacks on journalists and the bombing of Al Jazeera’s offices in Gaza last May. Lawyers working on the case filed to the International Criminal Court over the targeting of Palestinian journalists by Israel have said they will add the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh to the complaint. The announcement made at a press …

Al Jazeera to send Abu Akleh case file to the ICC: Full statement
2 years, 6 months ago

Al Jazeera to send Abu Akleh case file to the ICC: Full statement

Al Jazeera  

Qatar-based media network says it has assigned a legal team to refer the killing of its journalist to the International Criminal Court. Below is Al Jazeera Media Network’s statement on referring the killing of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh to the ICC: Al Jazeera Media Network has assigned its legal team to refer Shireen Abu Akleh’s murder case file to the …

Al Jazeera to refer journalist Shireen Abu Akleh’s killing to ICC
2 years, 6 months ago

Al Jazeera to refer journalist Shireen Abu Akleh’s killing to ICC

Al Jazeera  

The network assigns a legal team to refer the killing of its journalist, and the Israeli bombing of its Gaza office, to the International Criminal Court. Al Jazeera Media Network has assigned a legal team to refer the killing of its journalist Shireen Abu Akleh to the International Criminal Court in The Hague. In addition to the killing of Abu …

Abu Akleh’s killing highlights Israeli attacks on journalists
2 years, 7 months ago

Abu Akleh’s killing highlights Israeli attacks on journalists

Al Jazeera  

Shireen Abu Akleh’s death is only the latest attack on Palestinian, and international, journalists by Israel, say advocates. Speaking to Al Jazeera on Wednesday, Omar Shakir, Israel and Palestine director for Human Rights Watch, said the organisation is looking into the killing of Abu Akleh, but decried Israeli investigations “as whitewashed mechanisms”. They will do whatever they can to cover …

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